Patton Oswalt Joins MST3K Reboot

Push the button, Frank.

The MST3K Kickstarter has far exceeded its goal, and so new cast member announcements continue to trickle out of the Satellite of Love. On the show's Kickstarter page, co-creator Joel Hodgson announced Patton Oswalt will be joining the cast.

Oswalt, who is a self-professed fan of the show, will play the son of TV's Frank, TV's Son of TV's Frank.

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TV's Frank, played by Frank Conniff, joined the cast in season 2 after the unexpected departure of show founder Josh "J. Elvis" Weinstein. However, Coniff will not be joining the reboot as a major character, nor will former Mad and voice of Crow T. Robot Trace Beaulieu.

Instead, Felicia Day will join MST3K as Dr. Forrester's daughter, Kinga. She and comedian Jonah Ray will join Oswalt in the rebooted show, which has raised almost enough money so far to produce 6 all new episodes of everyone's favorite movie-riffing sci-fi B-Movie comedy show.

The original goal for the MST3K reboot was $2 million, an amount the crowd-funding project reached in under a week, guaranteeing at least 3 new shows. With 11 days left in the campaign, there's still plenty of time for the project to reach its $5.5 million stretch goal, which would pave the way for a dozen, yes 12, glorious episodes of the best television show ever created by humans.

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